The Blue Home, the presidential advanced in Seoul’s Jongno District. (Yonhap)
The South Korean presidential workplace started understanding of the Blue Home on Monday with the opening of its relocated press middle.
This comes three years and 7 months after the workplace was relocated to the Ministry of Nationwide Protection advanced in Seoul’s Yongsan neighborhood when the Yoon Suk-yeol administration took workplace in Could 2022.
The workplace presently plans to finish all relocation procedures by the tip of the month, together with the transfers of the president’s workplace house and the Nationwide Safety Workplace.
An official with the workplace mentioned Sunday that the relocation to the Blue Home was in its “closing levels” and “shall be accomplished by the tip of this month.”
The presidential workplace has been shifting its workspaces again to the Blue Home one after the other since Dec. 9. As of Sunday, most of them — aside from some secretaries’ workplaces, together with the workplace of the president’s non-public secretary — had completed shifting again into the Blue Home, the place affiliated workers at the moment are working.
In a chat with reporters on Dec. 7, the Blue Home chief of workers Kang Hoon-sik predicted that the switch of the working services shall be full “someday round Christmas.”
President Lee Jae Myung seems prone to start work on the Blue Home by the tip of the month. As soon as the schedule is finalized for him to report back to work there for the primary time, the presidential workplace plans to arrange a separate occasion to mark the return to the Blue Home.
However with restore work not but full on the presidential residence on the Blue Home, Lee will proceed to commute there from his present residence in Seoul’s Hannam neighborhood in the intervening time.
After declaring a return to the Blue Home as a marketing campaign pledge, Lee gave directions for the relocation when he took workplace in June. He additionally established a corporation and finances for the relocation effort. The presidential workplace subsequently closed the Blue Home to the general public in August and commenced rebuilding its entry system and communication community.
The Protection Ministry is predicted to return to its Yongsan advanced following the presidential workplace’s relocation again to the Blue Home. The ministry is presently finishing up associated follow-up measures, together with the reorganization of workplace house.
Relocations additionally seem like within the playing cards for the Joint Chiefs of Employees headquarters, which has been utilizing the Yongsan advanced alongside the Protection Ministry.
By Shin Hyeong-cheol, workers reporter
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